Author

Publication

2007-06-12 - Tor Books

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007007313
  • LibraryThing2566980
  • Goodreads1296444

Classifications

  • LCCPS3612.A519 M35 2007

Description

Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria still rules New England and her American Possessions; the Royal Navy rules the skies with its mighty Airships; and Earth still turns on God's great brass gears of Heaven as it makes its orderly passage round the Lamp of the Sun from Midnight to Midnight and Year to Year. In the town of New Haven, a Clockmaker's young apprentice is visited at midnight by a a brass Angel, and told that he, and he alone, can find the Key Perilous to rewind the Mainspring of Earth. If he does not, the planet will wind down, and life will cease.

Description

In a world in which the planets are run by a sophisticated clockwork solar system that connects everyday people to the Creator, a young clockmaker's apprentice is appointed by the Archangel Gabriel to rewind the Earth's Mainspring to prevent a disaster.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • MainspringHardcoverTor Books2007-06-12

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